Kairos, crisis, and global apartheid : the challenge to prophetic resistance / Allan Aubrey Boesak.
The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern and rise up against the devastating crises of the South African apartheid. Thirty years later, Christians and faith communities across the world are facing a different, more global, sort of apartheid. This apartheid is caused and characterized by gr...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Black religion, womanist thought, social justice.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times: 'A Humanity with a Kairos Consciousness'
- 2. At the Heart of it All: Kairos, Apartheid and the Calvinist Tradition
- 3. 'The Time for Pious Words is Over': Kairos, Decision and Righteous Choices
- 4. The Inclusiveness of God's Embrace: Kairos, Justice, the Dignity of Human Sexuality and the Belhar Confession
- 5. The End of Words?: Kairos, Challenge and the Rhetoric of the Barricades
- 6. Speaking Truth to the Tower: Kairos, Dissent and Prophetic Speech
- 7. Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity and the Jericho Road
- 8. That Which Avails Much; Kairos, Public Prayer and Political Piety.